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"Becoming a Star: Diary of an Astronaut Cadet" is an essay published in 2018 by Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy's first female astronaut. The work is divided into two parts. The first part mainly introduces how Samantha went from being a fighter pilot to becoming an astronaut trainee through the European Space Agency's selection process. With the help of detailed plots, it depicts the severe tests and tempers that an astronaut needs to undergo before actually flying into space, and also demonstrates their extraordinary intelligence, endurance and professionalism. There is no shortage of descriptions of the details and usage techniques of spacecraft and related equipment, which improves the level of the work from a technical level. At the same time, the various experiences and psychological activities of an individual who have experienced it are added, making the work closer to a literary work rather than an ordinary popular science reading. The second part records Samantha's 200 days of space life on the International Space Station from the launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft on November 23, 2014 to the return of the spacecraft on June 11, 2015. Samantha unfolded a picture of a space journey for us with delicate brushstrokes: being sent into space by a rocket in a spaceship, docking with the International Space Station, the first experience of weightlessness, eating, drinking, eating and drinking in space, physical exercises, scientific experiments, etc. These curious and very interesting things, as well as the magnificent miracle of the Milky Way changing outside the dome cabin between the 16 sunrises and sunsets in a day, were recounted in Samantha's writing.